This post will present a step by step guide on how to display recently updated posts without a plugin. Displaying recently updated posts would increase users’ engagement and would allow the webmaster to highlight updates to previous posts and would allow the webmaster to highlight updates to previous posts and thus keeping them updated and in the spotlight.

There are many ways by which the webmaster can enhance the website to make its visitors be more engaged and thus spend more time on it, one of these ways is to show the most commented posts as that would of course increase the engagement level. Of course increasing the engagement level increases the conversion rate (revenue) of the website.

One of the ways by which you can improve the look and customization of your website is to add a Gravatar; a Gravatar is the simple drawing/photo that appears beside the comments. This post will present a step by step guide on how to show Gravatars in the recent comments section. Of course you can use a plugin to do so, but all professional WordPress users know that though plugins are easy to use they tend to increase the overhead on the server and thus affects the performance of your website and for this reason this post will show you how to show a Gravatar in recent comments without a plugin.

WordPress is one of the most widely adopted content management systems (CMS) worldwide, WordPress or any other content management system allows its user create a website without any prior knowledge to programming. This is the reason why many institutions, organizations, and blogs rely on WordPress as a backbone for their websites.

This post will present and step by step tutorial on how to control and limit how many words will be displayed in your excerpt without any plugins just by copying and pasting the code in this post. But before starting you should backup your files in case anything went wrong.

A new release of WordPress is now out in the wild, it’s WordPress 4.1 “Dinah”; the name Dinah is in honor of the jazz singer Dinah Washington, the new version comes with enhanced functionality and a new theme.

One of the most effective ways to protect your website from being hacked is to use two factor authentication. Two factor authentication adds a second layer of security to your website, so even if the bad guys could guess your password and username they will be stopped by this second layer of security, there are various protocols for two factor authentication and it’s not the aim of this post to present and compare them.